Tag Archives: NAS

A U.S.-based subsidiary of Leonardo will continue to produce distance measuring equipment for the Federal Aviation Administration's navigation procedures under a potential three-year contract.

KBR has secured two recompete, cost-plus-fixed-fee task orders totaling $140M to support engineering and rapid prototyping efforts for the U.S. Navy, the company reported on Monday. 

A consortium composed of Bechtel, Sierra Lobo and GP Strategies will help the U.S. Air Force manages tests and sustain facilities at Arnold AF Base in Tennessee under a $72.8M contract modification.

The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that it will recompete a 10-year, $500M contract that seeks to update the agency's Time Based Flow Management aviation platform, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The contract covers modernization services for the TBFM system designed to utilize flight, global positioning system, radar and weather data …

Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary and the University of Alaska Fairbanks have received permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct unmanned beyond-visual-line-of-sight and nighttime test flights. The effort will help authorize autonomous drone flights in the National Airspace System, at or below an altitude of 400 feet, Insitu said Wednesday. Esina …

The Federal Aviation Administration has announced plans to recategorize from “moderate“ to “high“ level its enterprise information technology network under the Federal Information Security Management Act, FCW reported Monday. The move to update the FISMA categorization of the FAA Enterprise Network Services program is part of the agency's efforts to modernize …

The National Academy of Sciences has received a potential five-year, $30 million contract to establish a board that would tackle science and technical matters of interest to the U.S. Army. NAS will form the group to serve as the convening authority to lead periodic discussions, workshops and studies for the military …

Chris Pehrson, vice president for Defense Department strategic development at General Atomics' aeronautical systems business, will serve as a guest speaker at Technology Training Corp.-hosted Unmanned Aircraft Systems East for Defense and Government symposium that will kick off Saturday, Nov. 7, in Washington, D.C. Pehrson is one of the 24 guest …

The National Academy of Sciences has been awarded a potential five-year, $30.1 million contract by NASA to perform studies and assessments for the space agency’s aeronautics research mission directorate. NASA said Tuesday the nonprofit organization will assemble an independent group of scientists and engineers from both the public and private sectors to conduct research into various issues related to aeronautics and …

The U.S. Navy has awarded Evoqua Water Technologies a five-year contract to provide wastewater treatment services to a naval air station located in Jacksonville, Florida. Evoqua will provide its Wastewater Ion Exchange technology for the service branch to  clean inorganic and metal compounds in industrial wastewater at Jacksonville Naval Air Station, the company said Friday. The company also …

A Lockheed Martin-built F-35A Lightning II aircraft landed Friday at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland after it completed its first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, Defense News reported Saturday. Lara Seligman writes an Italian air force pilot flew the AL-1 fighter jet from an air base in Portugal …

Raytheon has awarded SES Government Solutions a subcontract to develop two stations for the GEO Uplink Subsystem in support of the ground and space operations of the Federal Aviation Administration's Wide Area Augmentation System. WAAS is a navigation tool that works to detect errors in position estimates through the monitoring of …

Lockheed Martin has introduced a traffic management platform designed to help operators of unmanned aerial systems share flight information with other pilots. Lockheed is working with NASA and other institutions to develop additional functions for the UTM system under the Space Act data sharing agreement, the company said Monday. “Our objective …

Raytheon has been awarded a $77 million contract to upgrade weather data systems and information display technologies for the Federal Aviation Administration as part of the NextGen Weather Processor platform. Under the contract, Raytheon will equip the backend program used for weather prediction with advanced processing and 4D modeling capabilities …

  Walter Angerer, Quest Software Quest Software, Inc. announced the availability of Quest NetVault Backup 8.6 and NetVault SmartDisk 1.5, the latest updates to the NetVault family of data protection solutions. “Given the current landscape in which admins are constantly being asked to do more with less, the ability to implement …